Marine Biodiversity Data Portal - NI

South of Nicholson's Point, SE Coast.

[Site list for year 1985]

Survey number: 555 Event number: 19850602/21 Date: 1985-06-02 GPS: 54.03483,-6.03083. Depth: 3.5 to 0.2 m. [ View map ]

Site Description: A boulder promontory extending from a sandy beach south of Nucholson's Point. The shore has medium boulders with the occasional large one on the sand. At the top of the boulder area, they are widely spread on sand between them, and become condensed down the shore and generally larger. The sediment between them also becomes coarser down the shore. Fucoids dominate the lower and middle shore with the upper shore being dominated by Ulva (originally recorded as Enteromorpha) and Porphyra with some tufts of Fucus spiralis on boulders. A fresh water stream runs across a shingle backing, forming wide shallow pools near the high water. Strand occurs on the shingle. The uppermost zone was about 2m below the strand line, but between this and the boulders is sand.